Health system support for childbirth care in Southern Tanzania: results from a health facility census (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Progress towards reaching Millennium Development Goals four (child health) and five (maternal health) is lagging behind, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, despite increasing efforts to s
Giving adolescents a voice? Using videos to represent reproductive health realities of adolescents in Tanzania (Publications)
Visual research forms part of a growing field in participatory research. Lately new discussions among scientists evolved about conceptual considerations and methodological approaches related to the us
Water, sanitation, hygiene, and soil-transmitted helminth infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Preventive chemotherapy represents a powerful but short-term control strategy for soil-transmitted helminthiasis. Since humans are often re-infected rapidly, long-term solutions require im
Beyond antimalarial stock-outs: implications of health provider compliance on out-of-pocket expenditure during care-seeking for fever in south east... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: To better understand how stock-outs of the first line antimalarial, Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT) and other non-compliant health worker behaviour, influence household expendi
Fast<em> in vitro</em> methods to determine the speed of action and the stage-specificity of anti-malarials in <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Recent whole cell in vitro screening campaigns identified thousands of compounds that are active against asexual blood stages of Plasmodium falciparum at submicromolar concentrations. Thes
Naturally acquired immune responses to <em>P. vivax</em> merozoite surface protein 3alpha and merozoite surface protein 9 are associated with reduced... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Plasmodium vivax is the most geographically widespread human malaria parasite. Cohort studies in Papua New Guinea have identified a rapid onset of immunity against vivax-malaria in childre